Word: gestapoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are hundreds of American airmen alive and back home now because of these "decadent" French people. . . . They kept alive the flame of freedom under the heel of the Gestapo...
When night came, the tall, blue-eyed Norseman put on spectacles and a false black beard. Quietly he slipped past the guards of his isolated cottage "prison" and made his way to Oslo, twelve miles away. There, night after night, within a stone's throw of Gestapo headquarters, he presided at secret meetings of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church...
...daughter [by a previous marriage - Mrs. Elsa Dusenberry of Bozeman, Mont.] if not to sing." Flagstad managed to keep herself politically neutral by refusing to sing for Nazi audiences, but her wealthy quisling husband, Henry Johansen, was less successful: his one-week imprisonment in a Gestapo concentration camp last February was described by Norwegian patriots as a "face-saving maneuver," during which he lived in the camp commandant's quarters...
Heinrich Himmler, missing, bloody boss of the liquidated Gestapo, was no longer a matter of concern to Winston Churchill, who observed: "I expect he will turn up somewhere in this world or the next, and will be dealt with by appropriate local authorities...
...fifth year, the Gestapo relaxed a bit, locked him up with three Catholic priests. Last December he was permitted to hold weekly services at Dachau. During his entire imprisonment, he said, the guards treated him "correctly"-but "I can't say why I was allowed to survive." One likely reason: an ex-U-boat commander in World War I, Niem&2461ler was known to Germans as a good German...